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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a joke. This information is useless.

There are 130,000 children in DC. Tell me how many are getting in-person instruction currently and how many “outbreaks” are associated with that? And tell me what exactly these outbreaks were like. Was anyone actually sick? The vast majority of children have mild or no symptoms.

If you can’t answer the questions, then shut up.[/quote]

Yeah, knowing the denominator would be pretty useful here. Whether anyone was "actually sick" is not as relevant, IMO, because the concern is partially about who kids will pass it to.[/quote]

Agree, and we'd also like to know where they got infected. Was it outside of school, inside school but outside the classroom during contact with adults, or was it inside the classroom?[/quote]

With the level of community spread we have, that's pretty much impossible to nail down.[/quote]

I think they could start with looking at if 2 kids in the same class were ill at the same time.  To me, "outbreak" would indicate transmission at school.  As in, the virus broke out and spread.  If a child attended school and was ill and did NOT transmit it to other students or teachers, I would not call that an outbreak but would call it a success showing that the measures taken in school are working.  Very different interpretations depending on the definition.[/quote]

This. The data isn't showing that there are actual outbreaks, just individual cases of 2 or more people affiliated with being at the school that they're incorrectly calling "outbreaks." And there are only 19 for all schools in DC combined. It's not saying that one kid was sick and got the whole class and teacher sick and several people died. It's very misleading to call it an outbreak.[/quote]
+1. The chart labels these settings as "outbreak sources". But a school building cannot be the [b]source [/b] of an outbreak if no one passed the infection to at least one other person they came into contact with there. The fact that two individuals at the same school building tested positive means absolutely nothing. They could have - and more than likely - caught the virus from someone in their family. It certainly does not indicate the school building was the source of the outbreak.

DCPS's recent case positivity data hints at this -- it shows onesies and twosies, with only one confirmed positive case of a DCPS student and around 10 staff positives (including staff members who do not work in school buildings).

At best this data is disingenuous. At worst, fearmongering. Shame on DC DOH et al for releasing such garbage.[/quote]

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